Thank you, Chair.
I have a question.
I intend to support the government's position and the NDP's position not to support the amendment, but I do have a question on the amendment being proposed by my Liberal friend across the way.
We heard from Canada Goose as one of the witnesses. Its products have been counterfeited. Its jackets and vests are very popular international products known for their excellence in keeping people warm, and their product quality. Canada Goose did not say this, but it relates to what they had said. If there were a suspected container of counterfeit Canada Goose jackets and those counterfeit jackets were worth $3,000 to $4,000, if they had been the real product, the actual market value would have been 10, 15, or 20 times that amount.
There are a lot of ways that Canada Goose makes sure their products are very easily identified as real or counterfeit. They do this with little holographs, and they're very careful.
You used an anecdote so I want to give a scenario. If the container were opened and the products were missing all of these identifiers and Canada Goose said they believed the products were counterfeit and the CBSA officer also had a legitimate suspicion that the products were counterfeit, at this time they would have 10 days to detain the products. After 10 days it's gone, released to wherever it's going, unless Canada Goose wants to pay to have it detained longer.
In my hypothetical scenario, which may have a ring of truth to it, they may have to spend well in excess of the value of that container in order to have it detained, just to keep it out of the market. It may be one of many that has finally been caught.
In the scenario that I think Ms. Sgro is suggesting, the rights holder is paying to keep counterfeit goods from entering the Canadian market. In order to protect Canadians from buying junk instead of the real thing, they would have to detain those goods for how long at their cost? To detain something that may be worth $5,000 they might have to pay legal fees and storage and whatnot, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars, just to keep this from getting into the market.
I think that's what Ms. Sgro is trying to reach a balance on.
Could you speak to my scenario?